American Fiction

Thelonious ‘Monk’ Wright is a respectable lecturer in literature at a respectable university. He also writes not very successful novels, inspired by the classics. In spite of his African-American heritage, he pays little attention in his work to themes such as identity or intersectionality, flagship issues of the (left-leaning) academic world. Wright is therefore not particularly popular among his students, and his publisher is not so impressed by the disappointing sales figures achieved by his books.